The Human Edge
The human edge
in the age of AI.
Expertise and experience that pair AI fluency with human connection.
Founder · Advisor · Coach
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Expertise and experience that pair AI fluency with human connection.
"Adopt AI or fall behind." And: "Don't lose the human touch." Almost no one teaches both. Technical AI training ignores the relationships your business runs on. Networking programs hand you nothing for the technology reshaping your industry. The gap between them is where careers and companies break.
Everything I build now pairs one technical capability with one human one, so neither is taught alone.
AI fluency paired with human connection — flagship rooms that prove the method, and focused engagements for organizations leading change and professionals navigating it.
Part executive dinner, part innovation lab, part escape room, part salon. A facilitated room built on one premise: the quality of our future depends on the quality of the questions we ask today. Run as a curated public Lab or a private corporate offsite around your team's most urgent challenge.
My signature framework — Relational Intelligence — brought to life in curated rooms. The Collision Salon convenes up to 60 professionals for themed, engineered idea-exchange where every guest leaves with at least three relationships they wouldn't have found alone. Sponsorships and private corporate editions available; the community lives on between events.
A structured diagnostic of where your organization stands on both edges: AI readiness across workflows, and the health of the human layer — trust, communication, and the client relationships your revenue runs on. You leave with a clear map of gaps and a prioritized plan.
A hands-on session where your team adopts practical AI tools inside their real workflows — paired with the relational strategy to keep clients and culture strong while the work changes.
An ongoing engagement embedding me in your leadership rhythm as the voice for the human side of transformation — guiding AI adoption, change communication, retention, and relationship-driven growth, without a full-time executive hire.
Talks that reframe the AI conversation for your conference, offsite, or team — from someone who built and worked with enterprise AI for a decade, then was displaced by the same wave. The message lands because the story is lived: the edge that can't be automated is human.
A focused one-on-one working session to take stock of where you stand — skills, story, network, and your relationship with AI — and leave with a concrete plan for what's next.
An honest review of how exposed your role and industry are to AI — and exactly which of your strengths grow more valuable, not less. You leave knowing what to learn, what to leverage, and how to position yourself on the right side of the shift.
A guided program for professionals navigating a layoff or pivot: rebuild your narrative, retool with practical AI skills, and re-engage your network with a connection strategy that opens real doors.
A cohort with small accountability crews and a curriculum pairing hands-on AI skills with generosity-based networking — because nobody should navigate reinvention alone, and the modern search is won by both edges.
Over a decade inside enterprise technology taught me how transformation actually happens: not through tools alone, but through people who trust each other enough to change together.
After a tech layoff, I rebuilt — and founded The Human Edge to teach the one thing AI can't replace. I bring it to classrooms, boardrooms, and community stages across New York.
For speaking, advisory, and team programs — or to join the list for the next cohort and Collision Salon dates.